Tag: education
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Politics of the Self in Everyday Life
I have spoken about my friends fairly often on this platform. It is extremely overlooked that our political beliefs leak into our everyday behavior if we adhere to an integral structure of the self, with each identity within us being informed by a core tenet.Sadly, the perception of the “otherness” of the self as a…
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Educator, Education, Educated
The bane of an educator’s existence is to not be able to educate. But what does “to educate” mean? What does “to educate” mean in Malta? What does “to educate” mean in a Church School in Malta? Yes, I know that each school has its own ethos outlining this quite plainly. But it does pay…
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The Teacher as Anthropologist: Going Native
Why do we insist on teaching children on our own worlds instead of theirs?
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Silence Expanded
Censorship is counterproductive We all know that learning is an encounter with the “other”. Knowledge is gained by an encounter with something other than one’s own self. By meeting differences. This is also on a behavioral level – how can one know what NOT to do when that thing that should not be done is…
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The “Case” for Students – On Common Questionable Rhetoric in the Educational Environment.
“What case are you being assigned next year?”“What case have you got?” “Oh, my case is giving me trouble!” … You would imagine being either in a forensic department or in a luggage shop listening to these things as an LSE. The fact that we have normalized such discourse in our everyday dialogue is truly…
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